Product Manager (m/w/d)
Ride
2021-12-03 09:30:05
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Banking & Financial Services
Job description
About the role
Quickly understanding the domain of wealth design, investments, finances, and tax structuring.
- You design, iterate, and support products by solving complex problems, turning them into inspiring experiences and creating value for users.
- You are an active member of our multidisciplinary product teams and enjoy team collaboration whilst promoting a live feedback culture.
- You will participate in the sprint planning & dailies and represent the product team
- Together with the engineering team leads you will take care of the backlog
- You will create feature descriptions and, together with the UI/UX Designer, provide everything needed for engineering to implement a feature
- You will represent the needs of our users and are passionate about deriving key insights through conducting frequent user research.
About Our Working Environment
Our team is cross-functional, self-organising, and autonomous. We have a flat hierarchy and as part of the product development team, you'll be working directly with our founders and partners in a collaborative manner. Among other things, our product development process includes the following:
- Iteration planning meeting Monday morning.
- Preparing the product backlog and prioritisation for the next week's iteration planning
- Continuously revisit the backlog priorities
- We start daily with a planning meeting
- We finish the week with a retrospective
- We thrive with continuous improvement and have the humility to do so
In the beginning, wealth is insurance; later, wealth enables freedom. We help people build wealth faster so they can achieve that freedom.
We develop RIDE to make institutional tools and strategies accessible - because wealth should not be a privilege. Legally compliant. Understandable. Cost-effective. Net return-focused.
At RIDE, we want to constantly get better. Employees have 30% of their time available to invest in process improvements and their own development.
Flat hierarchies allow us to share and value the ideas of everyone in the company. We hold a weekly Internal Academy, with the motto "by employees for employees". In addition, all employees are given access to Tradimo, the digital financial mentor, and the opportunity to participate in alternative investments.
We are searching for people to join us who are driven to find solutions, using a wide variety of skills and strengths in their role. Your key contribution will be to help define, de-risk, and execute against our product vision. Your personality will highlight:
- 3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager in a software company
- Intrinsic motivation to contribute and develop solutions for tasks and needs
- Adaptable and flexible in the face of changing structures and priorities
- Ability to stay focused and self organised and confident in executing your responsibilities
- An empathetic approach to understanding the product and team needs
- Working with a sense of humility and a growth mindset
Your Skills Include
Needed Skills:
- Creation and management of product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria writing
- Analysing and translating complex needs to executable and prioritised requirements
- Excellent English and at least B2 German
- Knowledge / passion for finance, accounting or economics
- Experience in agile / user centric principles
- Integrator work style skills / type
- Able to view the larger picture and see clearly within the complexity
- Strong communicator
- Out of the box thinker
Bonus skills:
- Knowledge of starting and managing all types of User Research
- Technical background and knowledge of programming
- Knowledge in the fields of brokers and broker systems and tax background
We are looking for ambitious people with a strong drive! We need problem solvers, initiators, people who see opportunities and potential for improvement. You should be passionate about your job and enjoy a fast-paced work environment. You will play an important role in taking RIDE to the next level - so you should have the desire to go above and beyond to deliver and grow as an individual. At RIDE, we embrace change and a very dynamic work environment. Anyone can challenge the status quo and remain persistent.
- Flat hierarchies
- Individual development and training opportunities
- Internal Academy - By employees for employees. We cover topics such as cryptocurrencies, real estate investing, stock and derivatives trading
- Access to the digital financial mentor platform - Tradimo
- Open and friendly corporate culture
- Fair compensation
- Highly motivated colleagues & innovative work environment
- Co-investment opportunities
- Home office option
- Team events
- Free fruit, cereals and drinks
- MacBook Pro 16" and external 34" inch monitors
We're a small, innovative, and fast paced company with people passionate about wealth design and technology. We're growing and looking for creative, passionate, enthusiastic, intelligent, and outstanding individuals to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a fun, challenging, and hard-working environment where you can immediately see your contributions to the company's success and value delivered to our users!
Our platform offers digital wealth design. We want to help people to achieve their dreams by managing and structuring their finances and by building wealth and generating passive income through our investments.